That you will not suffer any one to pass the circle of perfection in your Council, in whose integrity, fervency and zeal you have not entire confidence? IV. That you will promote the general good for our fraternity, and, on all proper occasions, be ready to give and receive instruction, and particularly from the State Grand Officers? IX. That you will pay due respect and obedience to the instructions of the State Grand Officers, particularly relating to the several lectures and charges, and will resign the chair to them, severally, when they may visit your Council officially? That you will pay due respect and obedience to the Grand Officers when duly installed, and sustain them in the discharge of their lawful duties? V. That to the utmost of your power, you will preserve the solemnities of our ceremonies, and behave, in open Council, with the most profound respect and reverence, as an example to you Companions? That in the government of your Council you will administer justice tempered with mercy? VI. That you will not acknowledge or have fraternal relations with any Council that does not work under a constitutional charter or dispensation? That you will not acknowledge or hold intercourse with any Council that does not work under some regular and constitutional authority? VII. That you will not admit any visitor into your Council who has not been regularly greeted in a Council legally constituted without his being first formally healed? That you will admit no visitor into your Council who has not been regularly and lawfully invested with the degrees conferred therein, until he has been formally healed? Jackson H. Chase, 33: That you will not admit a visitor into your Council who has not been regularly and lawfully invested with the degrees conferred therein, without his having previously been formally healed? VIII. That you will observe and support such by-laws as may be made by your Council, in conformity with the Constitution and General Regulations of the Grand Council of this State? X. That you will support and observe the Constitution and General Regulations of the Grand Council, under whose authority you act? That you will faithfully observe and maintain the By-Laws of your Council and the Constitution and General Regulations of the Grand Council, under whose authority it is held? XI. That you will bind you successor in office to the observance of the same rules to which you are now about to give assent? Do you submit to all these requirements, and promise to observe and practice them faithfully? Do you submit to these requirements, and promise to observe and practice them faithfully? RESPONSE: I do. Illustrious Companion Marshal, you will conduct the Illustrious Master-elect to the Altar and place him in position to assume the oath of office.
Your answers are satisfactory; but before proceeding further in your installation, it is necessary that I should administer to you the obligation of office.
Sword & Trowel
February 2016
Volume 3 No. 08
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